Bohemian Muppetry

Doesn't take much to amuse the Dude.

Interested in the History of Toronto? There's an app for that: ZeitagTO

One of our customers has designed a really cool app called ZeitagTO you can check out here

Cool Slo-Mo Video of the Day

Was on the panel for the Toronto Final Cut Pro Users Group last night, and
saw this video on fellow-panel member Brad Fortner's most excellent blog
(http://www.bradfortner.com)

One can never get enough slo-mo footage in life.

The Long Awaited DV Shop II Before and After Pictures

You can see the rest of the pics here

Most Depressing FaceBook Press Release of the Day

A new study released by cell phone maker Ericsson found that 35%, yes
THIRTY-FIVE, of iPhone and Andriod cell phone users in the US "interacted
with such non-voice apps as Facebook on their smartphones before rising."

This means one-third of users checked their Facebook before even getting out
of bed to take their morning pee.

This is further proof that the impending apocalypse is coming!

Details on the study are here:
http://www.ericsson.com/news/110512_cloud_244188810_c

Happy 10th Anniversary To Us!

My how time flies. We opened ten years ago today. Some days, it feels like it was only yesterday. Other days, feels like 20 years ago.

When we opened, Mel Lastman was mayor of Toronto, Jean Chretien was PM, Mike Harris was Premier, and George Bush was the newly-elected President of the US. We have survived 9/11, SARS, the Great Recession, and other countless obstacles.

Back in May 2001, the fastest Mac you could buy was a single G4 733 Mhz. The biggest hard drive you could get was 75GB. The first consumer DVD burner, the Pioneer A03, would ship in June for $1499. HiDef video was more a concept than a reality, and Digital SLRs (with 2 megapixels) were just starting to enter the mainstream.

Today, the fastest Mac is a 12-core 2.93 Ghz Xeon processor. You can get a 3TB drive, which is 3000GB. A Blu-Ray burner is now $199. HiDef cameras can be bought for under $500, and film is virtually extinct as we shoot with 24mp cameras.

So where will we be in 2021? I have no idea. I think storage will continue to expand, but also shrink in size, so that those quaint things we call hard drives will be supplanted by some USB-key or card-like object that will store many many TBs of information. USB and Firewire will be gone, replaced by whatever replaces Thunderbolt. Computer processors will probably be re-invented with speeds and capabilities that will astound us. Everything will get thinner and lighter. All lighting will be some refined version of LED. Video formats - how about 8K? Or 8K 3D? Or even better - 8K 4D!

The next 10 years will shock, amaze and confuse us just like the last 10 have. My desk will still be a mess; I'll still be meaning to get to that thing I've been meaning to get to for 3 years; and I'll still be cursing whatever supplier/courier/manufacturer ticked me off that morning.

Finally, thanks to our loyal customers who've been coming to us year after year.

Surreal Video of the Day

Christopher Walken reading "Three Little Pigs."

Enjoy.

As a side note - did Christopher Walken always talk like this? Did he talk
like this in high school?